Art in April, Point Loma/Harvey Branch Library

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Our neighbor, Hannah Creighton, invited us to share the sunny day with some local artists and art patrons. It was a small show and I’m sorry I didn’t get to talk to everyone, but all the artists had beautiful things to show and sell, were very friendly and the atmosphere was wonderful!

Click on the pictures to see larger versions of them and leave comments for these great ladies and their work!

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Really nice photo essay, Patty, and it is nice to see some delightful and inspired art out there in Pt. Loma. Thanks to you and the obragblog for giving these dedicated artists a little more exposure. Hooray for public art!!

“Ditto” – thanks Dickie for the plug for public art. do you support whatsisname? the “Obey” guy- he was arrested recently in Boston – there was a post on the OB Rag not too long ago, just can’t recall his name right now – the late hour and smoked filled rooms.

I never heard of this Fairey guy till the obragblog article in February. When I said hooray for public art I wanted to add the idea of people/neighbors/friends in a community sharing their creativity and expression (in whatever medium), to the idea of single installation art, or grafitti art as the only kind of public art.

As far as plagiarism goes . . . boy it sure is easy in the digital age!! . . .
. . . But maybe the issue gets more complex too. I appreciated the arguments in the article you referenced by Mark Vallen (which I assume LincolnC agrees with) but go to the following site:http://www.josart.net/mmpaint1.html
this is the work of an artist of my acquaintance who based a series of satirical works on his multimedia overlays on top of exact replicas of Thomas Kincaide’s very popular iconic (insipid?) American art. Plagiarism? I’d say no . . . disturbingly insightful? brilliantly acerbic? satiric to the point of tragic? yeah . . . so what is art anyway?

And then there is the question of “fair use” (which I think is Fairey’s defense against the AP plagiarism lawsuit on the Obama image) (like when an author is quoted in someone else’s article, or, more controversial these days, the practice of “sampling” from old recordings in contemporary music production). I believe in some measure we have to adapt to the new capacities the new technologies give us . . . I’ll leave the details to the intellectual property lawyers . . .

. . . but mainly kudos to those neighbors and friends who are willing to share their work in a public manner (including the documenters, Patty). An inspiration to me to be sure.

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